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Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by alabastervlog on Saturday March 29, 2025 @12:25AM (#43512715)
The Mars colonization thing is worth so little that it’d eclipse everything else and make the company worth negative dollars, if he ever really puts them all in on it. It’s pure fantasy. Mars sucks. It sucks very, very, very much. It sucks more than a nuclear-holocausted Earth that’s also had a decent size (but not crust-liquefying) impact and an insanely bad climate disaster, at once. It’s an awful place.
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by nomel on Saturday March 29, 2025 @08:00PM (#43519866)
> it’d eclipse everything else and make the company worth negative dollars

I'm not sure I understand this. SpaceX would potentially profit from any transport services provided. Why would others paying for the missions reduce the worth of SpaceX? Or are you suggesting SpaceX would be the one finding it all?